BMVC2025 Workshop

DIFA: Deep Learning-based Information Fusion and Its Applications

27th November, 2025

Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK

1University of Exeter 2University of Sheffield 3Queen's University Belfast

Introduction

Information fusion has become a key enabler for perception, decision-making, and control across a wide range of domains. By integrating data from multiple sensors, modalities, or sources, it produces more robust and accurate representations of the world. In recent years, the field has significantly expanded in both scope and impact, largely driven by the adoption of deep learning techniques. Advances in multimodal and multi-source fusion have led to notable improvements in diverse applications, including robotics, autonomous driving, medical imaging, remote sensing, surveillance, and infrastructure inspection. Deep learning models—such as CNNs, GANs, autoencoders, transformers, and diffusion models—have further accelerated progress in both fusion methodologies and their downstream applications. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from across the information fusion community to present the latest developments in algorithms, datasets, evaluation strategies, and application-driven solutions. It also seeks to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration by welcoming participants from fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, healthcare, and remote sensing. By reviewing current trends and exploring future directions, the workshop intends to drive innovation and strengthen community ties in the evolving landscape of information fusion.

Call for papers

The workshop will cover (but is not limited to) the following topics:

1. Multimodal information fusion
  • Lidar and camera; Radar and camera; Depth and RGB; Image and text; Other types of information fusion.
2. Multi-source information fusion
3. Different image fusion tasks
  • Visible and infrared image fusion; Multi-focus image fusion; Multi-exposure image fusion; Medical image fusion; Remote sensing image fusion; Multimodal image fusion; General image fusion; Other types of image fusion.
4. Deep learning methods for information fusion
  • CNN-based methods; GAN-based methods; Autoencoder-based methods; Transformer-based methods; Diffusion-based methods; Application-driven information fusion methods.
5. Information fusion applications
  • Low-level vision tasks; Object tracking; Object detection; Scene segmentation; Robotics; Medical applications; Others.
6. Dataset and performance evaluation
  • Information fusion datasets; Information fusion evaluation metrics; Information fusion evaluation methods; Information fusion benchmarks.

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Important dates

  • Submission deadline: August 25th 2025, 23:59 (UK time)
  • Notification of acceptance: September 8th, 2025
  • Camera-ready submission: September 22nd, 2025

Paper submission

Accepted Papers

  • TBD

Program

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Registration and Attendance

Registration

TBD

Attendance

TBD

Keynote Speakers

Organisers

Xingchen Zhang

Xingchen Zhang

Senior Lecturer

University of Exeter

Zhixiang Chen

Zhixiang Chen

Lecturer

University of Sheffield

Shuyan Li

Shuyan Li

Lecturer

Queen's University Belfast

Contact

  • To contact the organizers please use x.zhang12@exeter.ac.uk
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